SUMMARY

• SAP FICO functional consultant with 7 years of functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) module in Implementation, System user training and support of R/3 with different versions including ECC 6.0.
• Two full life cycle implementation experience with ASAP methodology, proficient in interacting with business users to identify information need and initiate process change.
• Strong experience in analysis, design development, blue printing, detailed configuration, testing, documentation, training, data uploading, preparing the cutover strategy, Go - live and post implementation support.
• Strong expertise in financial accounting in configuring and testing General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Bank accounting and special purpose ledger.
• SAP testing with SAP TAO, HP ALM, HP Load Runner, Solution manager and managerial practical experience in system design, change management, cut over activities, testing methods.
• Worked with the SD consultant to correct configuration related to customer material royalty accrual, expense, verification and accounts payment.
• Working with global outsourcing team for parts of the Accounts Payable process.
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Lockbox configuration, Banks accounting and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Hands on configuration and customization experience in Treasury, Bank Accounting, Automatic Payment Program,Dunning, Special Ledger Transactions and Intercompany Transactions, Travel management.
• Extensively worked on configuring New General Ledger accounting (NEW GL).
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes.
• Worked extensively on Business processes of SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with MM &SD Modules.
• Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business process for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions.
• Worked effectively on configuring MIGO, MIRO and Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Knowledge of working with Architect, Business team, Subject matter Experts, Analysts and End users. Good knowledge in Accounting, Management and Financial.
• Hands on working knowledge in Unit, Integration, Functional, Validation, system, stress, Regression and User acceptance testing (UAT), Experience in and executed the automated test scripts and worked on HP Quality Centre (HPQC) & Quick Test Professional.
• Ability to work independently as well as in team oriented environments with good organizational skills, excellent communication skills and inter-personal skills with problem solving aptitude.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, AP, AR, AA, FA, Procure to Pay, Integration with SD& MM

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, end-user training and go-live phases.
• Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project, Involved in test phases ie unit testing, integration testing.
• Creation of Asset Classes, Fixed Assets and Depreciation areas.
• Defining the Tax procedures and integrating it with the accounting system.
• Worked on go-live phase and provided post live support, Coordinating and solving issues with QA and production.
• Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items.
• Ensured proper creation, execution, and maintenance of automated testing scripts using SAP TAO.
• Managed testing defects and execution of automated test scripts for testing SAP with Mercury’s Quicktest Pro and SAP TAO.
• Configured tax settings, maintained Input and Output tax codes for different jurisdiction codes, and maintained jurisdiction code settings, automatic account assignments for tax postings.
• Worked for Procure to Pay sub-processes covering Fixed Asset setup, capitalization and administration are not included in this process view.
• Worked with accounts payable and purchasing users to provide a better understanding of business processes related to PO related invoice processing, invoice discrepancy research and invoice block removal.
• Worked on writing the functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Configuration of FI global settings, Configured company code, migrated GL accounts, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios..
• Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing.
• Setting up of own payment methods, payment files and advices through change in SAP scripts.
• Responsible for Training of the Accounts Payable user community. This included creation of training documentation (on both Purchasing, MM-LIV invoicing, GR/IR Maintenance and general AP Transactions) and providing Sony BMG specific process training.
• The Accounts Payable / Procure to Pay (P2P) overall process covers the complete cycle from Vendor Master Maintenance through procurement and Vendor Invoice Processing, the resulting Payment Processing to external vendors and the Period Closing Activities.
• Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support of the US region. This includes interfacing with the Accounts Payable and Purchasing departments to implement temporary business processes to manage the transfer of unconverted legacy data into SAP.
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot. Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in A/P.
• Configured payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Worked on Lease Accounting which enables automatic asset related postings in asset accounting module and contract related accrual posting in General ledger module.
• Worked on logistics invoice verification (LIV). Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendor Payment and Check clearing sub-processes.
• Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, Defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.
• Customer account groups, terms of payment, tolerance limits for customer payments, special GL indicators, dunning, and down payments.
• Configuration for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences.
• Process Payment advices to clear customer open items through automatic processing of BDC sessions.
• Expertise in lockbox file format and lockbox processing, manual bank statement and EBS processing.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC6.0,FI- New GL,FI-AP,FI-AR, Taxation, EDI,SD&MM Integration

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Project Preparation, bug fixes, Business Blueprint, Realization, and End user-training & Support for a full cycle implementation.
• Regular Interaction with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Analyzed Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution and gathered functional requirements for the to-be system.
• Configured the functional process design built in Business Blueprint Phase.
• Participated in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, Customer Master Record etc
• Run parallel currencies conversion tool to copy the local currency amounts to parallel currencies amount in FI for the US11 company code.
• Verify and Configure parallel currency type and exchange rate type according to requirements.
• Validate 12 tables for group currency and make sure that there is no inconsistency.
• Involve with SAP general ledger migration process from Classic GL to New GL.
• Develop Analysis Design Documents for the customer for New GL.
• Deliver Technical Design Documents and Test Plan for New General Ledger how to complete it successfully.
• Develop Analysis Design Documents for the customer for New GL.
• Participate in functional and unit testing in order to make sure that it is functioning the way it was before.
• Create a functional test script and scenarios to validate Chart of Accounts conversion.
• Validate 241 tables and confirm that data is correctly populated for each table.
• Run report for a customized program where New G/L account number used.
• Create a functional test script and scenarios to validate Chart of Accounts conversion.
• Involve in Cutover plan and weekend support for Go-Live support.
• Configured multiple Transaction Types, Valuation Methods, Valuation Areas and assigned Valuation Areas to Accounting Principles to meet the Foreign Currency Valuation requirements
• Extensively worked in a Multi-Currency Environment. Configured the Automatic Postings for Foreign Currency Valuation and Account Determination for Currency Translation
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups.
• Worked on Vendor master, Customer master, & open item (for GL, AR & AP) conversion using LSMW & BAPI’s.
• Integrated FI with MM & SD modules.
• Configured OBYC and VKOA as part of MM & SD integration with FI.
• Configuration of various areas including purchasing and Inventory Management.
• Procurement, Pricing and conditions for contracts and purchase orders.
• Used SAP tools including SE16N and data dictionary tools for data analysis and development work.
• Written functional specification and have good knowledge of drill down reports.
• Created user defined reports by using Report Painter.
• Generated reports through ABAP Query for Vendor and Customers.
• Configured the payment program & designed the form for Checks along with the MICR code.
• Configured settings for booking Inter Company Transactions for Consolidation.
• Configured the Chart of Depreciation and settings up the various depreciation areas like Book Depreciation, Taxation, and Investment Support etc.
• Configured the Period Controls key’s, Depreciation key’s, Calculation key’s etc.
• Created Asset classes & configured screen layouts for Asset master records
• Configured Period control & posting rules to handle depreciation calculation and automatic posting of the same on a monthly basis.
• Configured the US and Canada tax procedures and rates as per the jurisdiction, Worked on SAP Integration and Certification Center like Vertex and provided high quality solution to end user in calculating tax within the SAP Solution Manager.
• Extensively worked on Tax accounting and configured TAX codes for EDI procedures, Configured Tax clearing accounts, accounts for withholding taxes, tax forms, tax reports, accounts for down payments,
• Used Vertex to consolidate and determine all the domestic and international taxes.
• Trained users to work on calculation and reporting taxes on a single platform to give them a better control on transaction tax compliance and make sure tax liability is determined accurately.

Confidential, NC

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAPECC6.0,FI-AP,FI-AR,CO-CCA,CO-PCA

Responsibilities:

• Mapped current state to future state, developedtest scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans,cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Studied the changes in the standardSAPsystem for the new version and prepared change configuration scripts.
• Gathered client requirements in the areas of general ledger, accounts payable and asset accounting in order to align the case study with the current client business processes
• Provided extensiveGo live supportpertaining to all issues related toFI and CO.
• Documentedcritical changes performed system tests and trained client team members on new system functionality.
• MaintainingNew GL configuration, document splitting, Parallel ledgers, Segment Reporting, define variants andaccount determinationfor Real-Time Integration, intercompany clearings.
• System configuration and testing in the areas ofFI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Lossfor inter-company transactions.
• AR-customer transactions,credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Created basic settings to add additional vendor and customer master data and Invoice usingCATT, down payment, advances to vendors, adjustment of advances against invoice.
• ConfiguredMaterialCost Estimatewith Quantity Structure,costing variant, cost component structurelikeBOMandRouting for costingthe product provided byPP.
• ConfiguredControlling area, standard hierarchy, cost centers, primary cost elements, secondary cost elements, order types, settlement structures and distribution cycles in controlling, forCost Center Accounting.
• DefinedCosting type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing.
• Complete knowledge of theworkflowfrom the creation of sales order to delivery and billing in the Sales & Distribution module that involves theOrder-to-Cashend to end process.
• Configured bothcosting basedCOPA andaccount basedCOPA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation usingProduct CostingandCosting sheet.
• Setupinternal orders and cost collector configuration.Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system oforder settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning.
• Knowledge onAllocationusing cycle segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessments for costs to product line cost centers.
• Actualpostings: additional balance sheet and P&L account (3KEH), period end closing assessment and distribution cycles.
• InProfit Center Accounting, maintained standard hierarchy. Configured Planning layout, Planning profile, Plan allocations for Profit Center Accounting.
• Good understanding of SD condition techniqueused in the Pricing procedures, how the GL accounts for revenue and accrual postings are determined using account keys, copy controls, item category determination and its significance.
• Tested the system rigorouslycovering all the business cases to ensure the integrity of the system after the upgrade.
• As a member oftesting teammonitored integration-testing efforts and drafted the testing scripts. Utilized the Mercury testing tools like Load Runner and Test Directorto assist with the testing process.
• Performed System, Volume and Interface testingduring various phases of test cycle.
• Training and Documentation of all relevant processUAT (User Acceptance Testing),Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting.
• PerformedGAP analysisof business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

SAPFI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0Full Life Cycle Implementation, FI-SD, FI-MM, FI-CO, FI-PC, SD-CO

Responsibilities:

• As a team lead worked in all the phases of implementation including Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, and End user-training, Go-Live & Production Support. Extensively worked with Chinese team from Tianjin and Beijing.
• Worked with CFO, Controllers and Application Analysts to analyze the existing system and functional requirements gathering. Finalized the functional and technical specifications for the proposed system. Worked closely with SD, MM, WM, PP, ABAP and BASIS teams.
• Documented and Developed RICEF objects.
• Leading indirect reports and team members in configuration and testing phases.
• Defined and improved the business processes for intercompany transactions between Tianjin and Beijing plants.
• Configured the Automatic payment Program FBZP, setting up house banks. Lockbox configuration.
• Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the end-to-end project solution, including creation of the detailed project design, functional specifications, and test plans.
• Master data upload using LSMW.
• FI Design and Configuration for AP, AR and GL sub-modules, including financial statement version for individual company codes of Tianjin and Beijing and the consolidated one. Configuring the FI-SD, FI-MM, FI-CO, FI-PC (Product Costing), and SD-CO integration. FI-Assets Management design configuration including Intercompany asset transfer. Worked extensively on New GL, document splitting and parallel ledgers, Taxes including VAT.
• Trouble shooting with cross functional issues, supported Individual Test (Unit Test, Integration Test, Stress Test & System Performance Test) including creation, scheduling and execution of test plans during different cycles, resolving test issues while transferring knowledge to the client, the technical team and the production support group. Defining and working with end user to perform the month-end closing activities.
• Organizing various workshops to train power users, business and end users.

Confidential, Bridge water, NJ

SAP Tester-SD, MM, FI

Environment: SAP 4.6B, Oracle 8i, CATT, Manual Testing, Load runner, SD, MM, andFICO

Responsibilities:

• Testing of Client/Server environment in SAP FI, MM, SD modules using manual as well as automated tools.
• Involved in documenting Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Procedure using Business requirements document and Functional requirements document of the system
• Conducted entry validation tests on all the online Applications - both positive and negative Tests.
• Identification of Test data and validation of Test environment.
• Involved in Integration testing (end-to-end Cross-Functional process chain)
• Recording of various tests and stored in the database for reusability.
• Reporting of bugs using custom-made bug tracking tool developed in MS Excel
• Monitored the status of bugs until they were sorted out. Made summarized and detailed test reports. As QA Analyst involved in Documentation of Integration, Regression & Security testing.
• Involved in creation of Virtual Users using Load Runner.
• Involved in creation of low, medium, and Peak load scenarios.
• Involved in writing scripts for the load tests as per the requirements.
• Involved in creating the Scenarios for single and Multi-Vuser test.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functionality Testing and Integration Testing
• Involved in Data Migration testing i.e. used old data and checked the validity of the data
• Prepared training documents for end users of application.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0,COPA,FI-AP,FI-AR,SAP BI/BO,IDOC,AUTOMATIC PAYMENT PROGRAM(APP),LOCK BOX

Responsibilities:

• Handled major responsibilities of mass enhancement of COPA for the corporation.
• Analyzed the previous configuration and provided with enhanced solution to meet the business needs.
• Configured costing based COPA and Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using Product costing and costing sheet.
• Used COPA to report profitability by Customer, Product and Market.
• Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to COPA.
• Configured Operating Concern and PA settlement rules, regenerated and defined characteristics derivation rules, COPA Actual and Plan Assessments.
• Customized settings for controlling area, activating the components and assigning the company code and number ranges to controlling area. Configured different order types, their screen layout and status management according to the business requirement
• Configured system to define default Cost Center Assignment in Settlement rule for Internal orders to get true posting and secondary posting to Cost Center.
• Created Profit Center groups under Standard profit center Hierarchy and was responsible for Cost Center and Activity Type Master Data.
• Worked in various FI aspects relating to AR, AP issues, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/ partial payment settings for vendors and customers, Automatic Payment program, down payments, reversal of documents and exchange documents.
• Conducted user training in financial accounting including GL, AR, AP, Banking and controlling modules for all changes in configuration made.
• Configured and cross-trained Cash Flow Management in electronic bank statement, US lockbox, cash position, cash postings, liquidity forecast, order to cash (OTC), foreign exchange deals, AP F110 payment program, TR F111 payment program, and cash concentration.
• Developed design, configuration, and user documents in Solution Manager.
• Configured and worked on settings for Withholding Tax/1099, FI Validations/Substitutions, FASB52 (Foreign Currency Translation).
• Worked on SAP integration methodologies like IDoc’s, RFC’s, and ALE.
• Worked with ABAP consultants and designed functional & technical specs for various interfaces in FICO.
• Designed and developed analysis reports of product’s profitability by configuring Profitability Analysis.
• Worked on different issues related to HPQC and defects, Supported Offshore team for HPQC and Test execution.

Confidential

Jr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, AP /AR Production Support, FI-SD, Automatic Account Assignment

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Set up vendor/Customer Master Records and Assign Reconciliation Accounts in G/L
• Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods, configured OTC process.
• Worked on Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Define Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Configured AP with manual and Automatic Payment Program to do Check, ACH and Wire Payment.
• Configured Credit Management and Defined Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, Line Layout, and Reconciliation Accounts
• Configured House Banks R2R (Bank reconciliation), Bank Accounts, GL Structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Configured and tested the Lock Box program for Account Receivables in BAI2 Format.
• Configured AR - Dunning process, Interest calculation on Account Balances and Line Items
• Set up the integration of FI with SD through Automatic Account Assignment.